Yearning for God's Glory: A Deeper Encounter

Moses is still not satisfied, and you remember what that means. He is not satisfied in spite of all that God had promised him and in spite of all that he had just been receiving. Consider this man Moses who had been up on the mount with God 40 days and 40 nights there in communion with him. [00:09:24]

Moses goes further. He's not satisfied. He doesn't stop. He goes on and says, "Show me thy Glory." This is what we may very well describe as the daring quality that always comes into great faith. You'll find other illustrations of this in places in other places in the scripture, but here is perhaps one of the most remarkable of all. [00:10:21]

Do we know anything about these advancing steps and stages as we look back across our Christian experience? Do we know what it is to rise like this from step to step and from platform to platform? Do we know this increasing boldness in the presence of God, this increasing Assurance, this desire for yet more and more? [00:11:27]

Moses, you see, is no longer asking God for particular blessings. He's done that, but he doesn't stop at that. He's gone beyond blessings. He's gone beyond the gifts. He is now seeking God for himself, for his own sake. He's now filled with a passion for a personal knowledge, confrontation, meeting with God himself. [00:13:39]

The prayer for Revival is ultimately a prayer based upon a concern for the manifestation of the glory of God. Remember what I've said, that this can happen individually as well as collectively. But here it is. Moses, you see, knew of the glory of God. He hadn't seen it, but he knew. He believed God. [00:18:48]

God answers Moses by telling him, "Yes, I am going to answer your prayer, your petition, but I'm going to do so in my own way." The first thing that strikes us at once is this: that it was a partial answer. We shall also go on to consider, God willing, the means or the method or the way in which God gives the partial answer. [00:22:54]

The God Who is there in the glory, as it were, comes down, pays a visit, pours out his Spirit, descends again, and he just passes by us, and we look on and feel and know that the glory of God is in the midst and is passing by. Oh, it's but a touching of the Hem, as it were. [00:32:37]

We were never meant to be content with a little. Let me therefore give you some scriptural indications of the possibility of this. I've already reminded you of what happened to Saul of Tarsus there on the road to Damascus. Suddenly there shined round about him light from Heaven. That happened to a man, remember. [00:34:03]

The Apostle Paul himself, a man of like passions with ourselves, a man still in the body, still in this world, still in the flesh, he has had this experience of the glory itself in this veiled and in this partial manner. But he had other experiences. There he was in Corinth, and he found everybody against him. [00:35:06]

We see through a glass Darkly, but then face to face. The hand is upon us now. We are only seeing through a glass Darkly, yes, but we do see through a glass Darkly. That's the thing I'm emphasizing. Even here in this world, we see through a glass Darkly, an enigma in a riddle if you like, yes, but we do see. [00:36:38]

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Our Lord's prayer for his own is this: Father, I will that they also whom thou has given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou has given me, for thou lovest me before the foundation of the world. [00:39:22]

Thank him for a little Grace and ask him for great grace. He has given thee hope, ask for Faith, and when he gives thee Faith, ask for Assurance, and when thou get us Assurance, ask for full assurance, and when thou Hast obtain full Assurance, ask for enjoyment, and when thou Hast enjoyment, ask for Glory itself. [00:45:38]